The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century by Steven Runciman

The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century

Steven Runciman

356 pages • first pub 1958 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous tense slow-paced
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On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially bi...

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